#complexes

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

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My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946. ↗

— Henry Taube

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Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

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I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us. ↗

— Carl Jung

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One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes. ↗

— Jean Tinguely

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Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. ↗

— Paul Tournier

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